A politician and his wife caught perverting the course of justice. A TV
presenter exposed as a prolific sex offender. A Church leader who attacked
gay marriage admitting sexual misconduct. Britain’s public figures have been
falling from grace at such an alarming rate that there are concerns — and
not only from the usual reactionaries — that the country has sunk yet deeper
into moral deficit.

It is reassuring, then, that Mona Siddiqui, the respected thinker on faith and
morality, says it has not — it just may appear so, with our digitalised and
fast-paced world preventing scandals remaining hidden as they once